The Exception To The Rule Quotes

#1. DAMN! damn it all down
took one to the chest without even a sound so
WHAT! what are you worth
the things you love or the people you hurt
HEY! it's like deja vu
a suicidal maniac with nothing to lose
so wait, it's the exception to the rule
everyone of us in EXPENDABLE

Shinedown

#2. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.

Gloria Furman

#3. Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule.

Jaye Frances

#4. I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

Ron Perlman

#5. You were the the exception to the rule. You were the one person who made me rethink everything I ever believed in and I'm so happy that you did.

Beth Rinyu

#6. Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

Ron Kaufman

#7. Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Minnie Driver

#8. Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Marty Rubin

#9. One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!

John Byrne

#10. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Vera Nazarian

#11. If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

Celia Thaxter

#12. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#13. The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.

Richard Feynman

#14. But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

David Jeremiah

#15. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.

Lang Leav

#16. The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

Verity Stob

#17. Deborah is a great exception to the rule, in a matter of speaking because God chose her to lead Israel. She was the only female judge of Israel which speaks volumes to the fact that God will use anyone who is willing to allow him to lead.

M.S. Kimball

#18. It is an acknowledged truth that the constancy of a good father during childhood goes a long way to prevent a girl from letting herself get kicked around by jerkface male sadists later in life -- and I am no exception to this rule.

Leah McLaren

#19. The psychological substance of the whole thing has altered; the marble has turned to ice; and the ice has melted with most amazing rapidity. The Church was right to refuse even the exception. The world has admitted the exception; and the exception has become the rule.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom.

Miklos Nyiszli

#21. It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

T.A. Barron

#22. Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Mordecai Richler

#23. Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

Emily Giffin

#25. Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

Isabella Bird

#26. In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Charles Krauthammer

#27. It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating.

Liz Tuccillo

#28. There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

Patrick Rothfuss

#29. The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

Edward Jenks

#30. America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

Seth Shostak

#31. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.

Vicki Abeles

#32. Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#33. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Jon Meacham

#34. The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

Giorgio Agamben

#35. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Scott Adams

#36. Right. But believing two opposite things at once is also called 'insanity.' You saying you're an exception to the rule?

Unknown

#37. What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.

Ben Wikler

#38. Look for the exception to every rule and you'll find it.

Marty Rubin

#39. There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Samuel Butler

#40. Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#41. My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

Graham Norton

#42. Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Cesare Lombroso

#43. There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#44. I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Denzel Washington

#45. People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Jonathan Evison

#46. To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

Victor Hugo

#47. We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

Gabriel Orozco

#48. Has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?

Alexander McCall Smith

#49. This a sacred rule we find
Among the nicest of mankind,
(Which never might exception brook
From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
To doubt of facts, however true,
Unless they know the causes too.

Charles Churchill

#50. Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#51. There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

Connie Francis

#52. But above all, meetings have to be the exception rather than the rule. An organization in which everybody meets all the time is an organization in which no one gets anything done.

Peter F. Drucker

#53. Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Richard Curtis

#54. The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that
people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may
or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably
be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man.

G.K. Chesterton

#55. The exception tests the rule.

Richard P. Feynman

#56. There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

Marvin Ammori

#57. It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it.

Matthew Syed

#58. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.

Liz Tuccillo

#59. An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Rod Serling

#60. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Marilyn Grey

#61. Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Julie Burchill

#62. Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Rod McKuen

#63. There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

James Thurber

#64. Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule ... It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

Ward Connerly

#65. As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Gore Vidal

#66. The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

Francis Parkman

#67. I had never found people quick to pay the amounts they had undertaken to subscribe, and the Natal Indians were no exception to the rule. As, therefore, no work was done unless there were funds on hand, the Natal Indian Congress has never been in debt.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

Elizabeth Hawes

#69. Neurosis is the rule, not the exception', and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is also the starting point for understanding what went wrong and learning that we have a choice: we can simply re-enact the past, or we can rewrite the script.

Oliver James

#70. I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

Robert Powell

#71. Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

Martin Amis

#72. Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Arne Duncan

#73. To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Victor Hugo

#74. Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Paul Russo

#75. There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Charles Osgood

#76. To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

Victor Hugo

#77. An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

John Wooden